Error during resize

Hi, I was resizing a partition (C DRive) when I got the Blue Screen of death! Now I can't reboot or do anything! I have booted from the acronis disk and can see my C Drive which has an error - File system error: File record Corrupted, can anyone tell me what I should do?

The partition does not appear to have resized. The drive is aplit into two partitions (C & D) I use D for data and have a full back up (3 generations in fact!) but I don't have a back up of C which is basically just Windows and Progs so I can re-install, just a real pain! I'm guessing it's all there if only I could get at it!

Before running chkdsk, I would recommend you create a backup image of the C: partition using TI (assuming TI will let you). This should have been done before doing the resize, but it's too late for that now.

What OS are you running? Is it XP?

If you have an XP install CD you should be able to boot it and drop to the Recovery Console and run chkdsk.

If you have a BartPE CD, then you could boot that and run chkdsk from a Command Prompt window.

DD is supposed to be "data-safe", but things can go wrong (as you found out). Even if you're just doing what you feel is a "simple" partition operation, it's still better to create a backup image before, just in case. You've wasted a little time if everything goes okay, but if it saves you just one time, you won't ever think that way again.